For those who are into the philosophical type stuff, I’m quite a fan of Freefall (http://freefall.purrsia.com/ – you might have to copy paste that link since Lemmy doesn’t like linking to sites that don’t support HTTPS (that’s how old this comic is)). The basic premise is “humans have created robots with full human intelligence, and they outnumber humans thousands to one. Now what? What are the social and political ramifications of that?” The series explores robot rights, the ethics (and, more importantly, the inefficacy) of modifying a robot’s brain to prevent it from getting any funny ideas, what happens when someone tries to mind-wipe all the robots and they find out about this plan and stage a revolt, who is responsible for an AI’s actions when acting under direct orders, whether or not man-made beings have souls, and more, all while keeping the tone upbeat and never letting up on the jokes even while exploring complex and often depressing philosophical conundrums that don’t have easy answers.

(After the robot-mind-wipe program almost goes through and is neutralized by a group of robots, humanity stages a debate about whether or not keeping the robots around is a good idea knowing that they can do that. The leader of the group who says robots should be left as is is a human. The leader of the group who says robots are a threat to humanity and should all be destroyed is a robot. I am seriously not doing Freefall justice. Go read it. Right now. The first 300 strips (each strip is 3 panels) are a bit underwhelming – honestly you can just skip them and not miss much – but they’re less than a tenth of the archive, and after that I promise you will be glad you did.)